Chapter 2779 — Xuanzhen's Phone Call
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"Hello? Yes?" Ancestor Xuanzhen picked up. Because satellite phone numbers used a special range, a wrong number was fairly unlikely, so even though he did not know who was calling, Ancestor Xuanzhen still answered.
"Xuanzhen, is that you?" Hearing Ancestor Xuanzhen's voice again, White Leader was overcome with emotion, as though he had returned to his younger days, when every day he had led the boy along to refine pills. Those days had always been so happy...
"You... are you Senior Brother?" Ancestor Xuanzhen's eyes went wide, and the instant he heard that voice, tears welled up and spilled over! He had never imagined that the very person he had just been thinking of would call him.
"Yes, it is me. Xuanzhen, are you well?" White Leader asked.
"Senior Brother, I am sorry, I am so sorry..." Ancestor Xuanzhen had a thousand words to say, but in the end they all turned into apologies, because he no longer knew how to express the tangled feelings in his heart.
"Heh heh, what is past is past. I do not blame you." White Leader smiled. He had long since come to understand the events of that year—Xuanzhen surely had nothing to do with it. He had merely been used. The one who had tampered with things must have been Xuanchen!
"No, it is my fault. I was too weak, too cowardly. All these years, I never dared to seek you out, never dared to bring you back to the sect... Wuwuwu..." Ancestor Xuanzhen wept aloud like a child, but he did not care—in the secret chamber of the Xuandan Sect, no one would ever know.
White Leader understood now as well: Xuanzhen had not thrown in his lot with Xuanchen. His nature was still as timid as it had been in those years. Though he was now an ancestor of a sect, deep down he was still a child.
"Xuanzhen, do not cry. I know the events of that year had nothing to do with you," White Leader consoled him.
"Yes, yes..." Hearing White Leader say this to him in person, Xuanzhen relaxed at once.
"The reason I am calling you this time is that there is something I must ask of you..." White Leader felt somewhat reassured. It seemed his second junior brother could still be trusted. There should now be a way forward for Wei Zhao's inheritance.
"Ah? Senior Brother, please, do not say such things. Whatever it is, just tell me—what is this talk of asking favors? If you need me to do something, simply say it!" Ancestor Xuanzhen said hurriedly. "But... you know as well as I do that with Xuanchen around, there are things I cannot do. Are you asking me to keep the Five Luminaries Sect from targeting your disciple?"
"It is not about that." White Leader denied it. "I will not put you in a difficult position. It is something else."
"That is good..." Ancestor Xuanzhen breathed a sigh of relief. To set himself against Ancestor Xuanchen—that he still did not dare. The Five Luminaries Sect could be said to be entirely under Ancestor Xuanchen's control; he, the second ancestor, was in truth nothing but a figurehead.
His influence was limited to the Xuandan Sect, and even there it was only covert influence. On the surface, the Xuandan Sect was still controlled by Ancestor Xuanchen. He could not overreach, or Ancestor Xuanchen would see through him. As for himself, he did not much care—but his two disciples would surely suffer for it...
"It is this: how can an illusory-attribute constitution receive the inheritance of origin power and transform it into a tangible attribute?" White Leader asked. "This is recorded in detail in the scripture pavilion of our Five Luminaries Sect." (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (.) to cast